Alcatel-Lucent: Consumer spending survey says broadband good, PPV, mobile...
Over at TMCNet, Gary Kim has unearthed survey data generated by Alcatel-Lucent on global consumer telecommunications spending in these tight times. People are cutting, but they’re going to keep VoIP...
View ArticleMagicJack femtojack?
Enterprise VoIP Planet is reporting a jaw-dropper. The magicJack guys are saying that they are making a femtocell-esque version of the magicJack device. For a few dollars more, magicJack will...
View ArticleA day of high-touch communication
I had two separate calls today, each with its own unique high-touch component. On the first call, I logged into the weekly VoIP User’s conference session using ZipDX and G.722. Featured speaker was...
View ArticleVonage 2Q 2009 financial results – Half empty or half full?
I’ve been spending the last day staring at the ocean and pondering what the latest financials for Vonage really mean. Is the glass half empty or half full? The half-empty argument is pretty...
View ArticleCatchup – Vonage announces unlimited int'l voice, free visual voice mail
Running around last week, I didn’t have a chance to post anything about Vonage’s unlimited flat-rate calling plan and the throw-in of unlimited “readable” voice mail. So I’m playing catchup and Vonage...
View ArticleFree phone numbers, free web calls and the return of bad ideas
There’s been a slew of announcements fluffing a second wave of anonymous-style phone calling via the web. Nobody made money on the first wave, so I’m not sure where the beef, er, green is the second...
View ArticleComcast Casabi VoIP play in play
Someone stumbled across Comcast’s quiet rollout of “HomePoint” service in Florida at the end of last week, but the cable company is making up for a soft rollout with a launch of a marketing campaign in...
View ArticleGoogle Gizmo5 deal is not THAT exciting
Last week, Google officially ‘fessed up to buying Gizmo5 for an “undisclosed amount.” Now everyone is falling all over themselves to spin this as the Greatest Thing since sliced bread. Excuse me, did...
View ArticleGoogle offers “free” phone through Gmail
Making free phone calls just got easier through Google(www.google.com) (so long we all remember that “free” is not really free, but subsidized through someone else’s money) via “Voice Calls from...
View ArticleIT EXPO – AudioCodes, snom branch out
Perhaps the biggest surprise/trend in LA this week was the move by established IP communications companies to start widening their playing fields, abet for different reasons. Both AudioCodes...
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